One of the crowning achievements of the internet is its ability to link different countries, races, and cultures. Running a company from Australia, I’ve got information and advice from people the whole world over, and used it to adapt and change my business, build great websites, and build a global presence.

Unfortunately, there’s one global message that hasn’t hit every country yet, and that’s the importance of good design. Bad websites are out there, EVERYWHERE. It’s not just limited to Geocities sites anymore, but every geographic corner of the web. These 14 websites are my personal most hated favorite.

#1 – DrivingSkills.on.ca – Canada

Canada is a first world country, right? Seriously — I know Americans like to joke about it, but Canada isn’t a country built on sticks and mud. Somehow, this website looks like it was build in a cave, on a computer powered by a moose on a treadmill.

Want to read the content? Oh wait, you can’t thanks to the annoying horizontal scrolling. Here’s a top tip for amateur web designers out there: have your pages scroll in ONE DIRECTION only.
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Its Tuesday and time to display cool designs for our web design inspiration series. Everyone needs inspiration, and web designers are no different.

Today, I would like to share some web design galleries that have unique and awesome designs which can be inspirational for designers that are working on their own design gallery. I am avoiding putting some of the best web design galleries out there that are already known by everyone in the design industry and trying to display some unique designs that have never been seen by some of our readers.

So here’s a list of 34 Unique Web Gallery Designs. Hope you like them all!

1. CSSDsgn

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We all are well aware of the amazing effects of textures in web / graphic design. No matter if its a Banners, magazine ads, website backgrounds or any other artwork we are working on – with a great texture there is always a scope for more creative result. There are vast variety of Textures which has been used by designers around the world such as Metal, Wood, Paper, Cardboard, fabric etc. and today we are here with some awesome and free Fabric Textures.

In this texture showcase, you will find 51 awesome fabric textures that are available to you for free of cost.

1. Fabric Texture 01

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This is Tuesday and we are here with second roundup of cool designs from web design inspiration series. Thanks for your response on Web Design Inspiration #1 which is a real source of motivation for us to be regular with the series.

Keep reading to see latest design inspiration every week and share yours in comment. This week’s inspirational designs are:

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We all know how fast design industry is growing. Everyday we have new amazing stuff up on web such as online tools, free apps or unbelievable code development. Background images are one of the core features in web design that help make a website design visually interesting. Whether you are using a standard header background, a basic body background or a full body backgrounds there is great scope to come out with an amazing result.

Here are some great examples of background images used in Website Design. I hope it will be inspirational for all you designers out there.

1. Inner Metro Green

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